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Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia
Matthew Neill Null on the Silicon Valley Greed Leaching Into Canaan Valley
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Matthew Neill Null
| August 25, 2026
How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing
R. Joshua Scannell on the Intersection Between the Carceral State and Big Tech
By
R. Joshua Scannell
| August 24, 2026
Here’s what’s making us happy
this
week.
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Brittany Allen
| August 21, 2026
In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)
Maris Kreizman on the Need For Literary Friction
By
Maris Kreizman
| August 20, 2026
Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?
Joel Halldorf Argues that Reading Was in Decline Well Before the Smartphone—But There’s Still a Way to Fix That
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Joel Halldorf
| August 19, 2026
Now Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI.
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Brittany Allen
| August 17, 2026
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This interactive atlas captures more than a thousand literary journeys.
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Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley
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| August 10, 2026
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly
For a Professional Reader Like Maris Kreizman It’s Hard to Avoid the “World’s Largest Bookseller”
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Maris Kreizman
| August 6, 2026
Author or Actor: Who Should Narrate Audiobooks?
Maris Kreizman on the Importance of a Good Reader
By
Maris Kreizman
| July 23, 2026
On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice
M. Leona Godin Considers the Mundane, Profound Act of Translating a Picture
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M. Leona Godin
| July 22, 2026
Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.
For Robert Moor, Readers Are Quickly Losing the Line Between the Idea of a Book and the Book Itself
By
Robert Moor
| July 15, 2026
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature
Nicole Blackwood Charts the Rise and Fall of a Literary Microtrend
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Nicole Blackwood
| July 13, 2026
Can ChatGPT Produce a Version of Proust Worth Reading?
Bryan Charles on the Slow But Steady Encroachment of Artificial Intelligence Into Literary Translation
By
Bryan Alistair Charles
| July 7, 2026
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The Best True Crime of the Month: August 2026
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Isolation as an Antagonist
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Holly Craig
The Best Reviewed Books of the Month
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